And once again, it is a step, not the goal... It is important to actually do SOMETHING rather than nothing because you can't have what you want now. That is the position of a three year old.
Damo, I am trying to get a reprehensible and hideous practice to stop. My objective is to eliminate the procedure completely, that is what "ban" means. To suggest I allow the practice to continue under the guise of re-defined semantics, is not relevant to my objective in any way. I see no purpose in this, and frankly, see no argument from your perspective.
If you want to ban smoking in public, you ban smoking in public, period! You don't pass some watered-down compromise that allows smoking in public for reasons that aren't relevant, and don't really exist, and that people can subjectively interpret to skirt the ban. That is just stupid and ignorant on a number of levels. It completely defeats the purpose of banning it!
We didn't pass a law that said, you can't murder someone in cold blood... unless you find some justification to do it. That would just be stupid to do, wouldn't it? What would be the point? Sure, you would eliminate all cold blooded murders where people would not have any perceived justification for their action... but what have you really accomplished there? Why would you ignorantly make such a stupid compromise? Just to "get along" with the cold blooded murderer's? I don't get it!
Go read about partial birth, go find where it has EVER been performed to save the life of the mother! It is a procedure that takes DAYS to perform, and is NEVER done out of medical necessity! NEVER! NEVER EVER! This isn't "Dixies Opinion" this is the FACT! You just don't want to accept it, and I'm sure you have your foolish reasons, but you can't make me understand why you would ever support such a thing. IT has nothing to do with politics for me, it has to do with stopping doctors from partially birthing an infant, and ramming a pair of scissors into its skull and killing it, where it does feel pain, and it is not necessary for ANY reason! This is an inhumane act that flies in the face of modern medicine and what it is supposed to stand for! There is no argument here with regard to health and life of the mother, NONE! It doesn't exist! I've shown you the testimony from experts in the field, and you've simply ignored them and held to some stupid idiotic belief that this is about right-wing-religious-fanatic-conservative views, when that is simply NOT the case! You've apparently gulped the liberal kool aid on this one, and just refuse to accept reason and logic.
Again, if we were discussing a ban on ALL abortions, I would agree with the argument, there does need to be some provision in the law to protect a woman's health and life, in those cases. This is not about that! There are any number of other ways to terminate a pregnancy, and ALL of them are less risky to a woman's health and life, than partial birth abortion! There is no reason to perform a partial birth abortion, except convenience. It is done at the expense of a partially born human being, and that is just unacceptable in a civilized society, I am sorry. No, I can't support some weak-ass watered down law that would be meaningless and ineffective in BANNING this hideous practice, I can't do that! I can't look at myself in the mirror and justify ANY rational reason to accept the 'red herring' position, and I won't budge on that! If you can find it in your conscience to do so, more power to ya!
